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Nero Wolfe Novels By Rex Stout And Others Publication Year Order: Book 1952
Prisoner's Base
by Rex Stout
Hours after Priscilla Eads pleads with him to take her case, Nero Wolfe is shocked to find out that she was murdered, and soon he is investigating her fortune-hunting husband and greedy business associates. Reissue.
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Nero Wolfe Novels By Rex Stout And Others Publication Year Order: Book 1949
The Second Confession
by Rex Stout
When a millionaire businessman hires the sedentary detective to snoop on his daughter's boyfriend, Wolfe finds himself caught in a labyrinthine case involving drugged drinks, murderous debutantes, and a gangland boss. Reissue.
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Nero Wolfe Novels By Rex Stout And Others Publication Year Order: Book 1956
Might As Well Be Dead
by Rex Stout
Eleven years after his own thoughtlessness sent his only son, Paul, away from home, Nebraska businessman James Herold calls upon Nero Wolfe to track down the young man so that he can make amends. Reissue. NYT.
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Nero Wolfe Short Story Collections: Book 11
Trio for Blunt Instruments
by Rex Stout
Trio for Blunt Instruments is a collection of Nero Wolfe mystery novellas by Rex Stout, first published in 1964 by the Viking Press in the United States and simultaneously by MacMillan & Company in Canada. The book comprises three stories: * "Kill Now — Pay Later," serialized in three issues of The Saturday Evening Post (December 9, 16 and 23–30 1961) * "Murder Is Corny" * "Blood... (more)
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Nero Wolfe Novels By Rex Stout And Others Publication Year Order: Book 1935
The League of Frightened Men
by Rex Stout
Paul Chapin's college cronies never forgave themselves for the prank that crippled their friend. Yet with Harvard days behind them, they thought they were forgiven -- until a class reunion ends in a fatal fall. This league of frightened men seeks Nero Wolfe's help. But are Wolfe's brilliance and Archie's tenacity enough to outwit a most cunning killer? "Always a treat to read a Nero Wolfe mystery." (The New... (more)
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Nero Wolfe Novels By Rex Stout And Others Publication Year Order: Book 1940
Where There's a Will
by Rex Stout
Investigating the bizarre will of late multimillionaire Noel Hawthorne--who left the bulk of his estate to his mistress and nearly nothing to his three sisters--astute sleuth Nero Wolfe stumbles upon a legacy of murder. Reprint.
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Nero Wolfe Short Story Collections: Book 1
Trouble in Triplicate
by Rex Stout
Trouble in Triplicate is a collection of Nero Wolfe mystery novellas by Rex Stout, first published by the Viking Press in 1949, and itself collected in the omnibus volume All Aces (Viking 1958). The book contains three stories that first appeared in The American Magazine: * "Before I Die" (April 1947) * "Help Wanted, Male" (August 1945) * "Instead of Evidence" (May 1946, as "Murder on... (more)
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Nero Wolfe Novels By Rex Stout And Others Publication Year Order: Book 1953
The Golden Spiders
by Rex Stout
Trying to determine why his last two clients were ruthlessly murdered, Nero Wolfe wonders if the answer is linked to a young boy who turns up at his brownstone apartment and finds clues in a gray Cadillac, a mysterious woman, and spider-shaped earrings. Reissue.
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Nero Wolfe Novels By Rex Stout And Others Publication Year Order: Book 1966
Death of a Doxy
by Rex Stout
When an old acquaintance and fellow P.I. is accused of murdering a kept woman, Nero Wolfe investigates and finds several suspects in a mystery blackmailer, a sexy lounge singer, and a cold-blooded lady-killer. Reprint.
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Nero Wolfe Short Story Collections: Book 4
Triple Jeopardy
by Rex Stout
Triple Jeopardy is a collection of Nero Wolfe mystery novellas by Rex Stout, first published by the Viking Press in 1952. Itself collected in the omnibus volume Kings Full of Aces (Viking 1969), the book comprises three stories that first appeared in The American Magazine: * "Home to Roost" (January 1952, as "Nero Wolfe and the Communist Killer") * "The Cop-Killer" (February 1951, as "The Cop... (more)
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Nero Wolfe Novels by Rex Stout and others publication year order: Book 1934
Fer-de-Lance
by Rex Stout
Nero Wolfe, the arrogant, gourmandizing, sedentary sleuth, returns--with his perambulatory man-about-town Archie Goodwin in tow--playing snake charmer in a case with more twists than an anaconda, and hoping to catch a killer who's still got poison in his heart. **MASS MARKET PAPER**
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Nero Wolfe Novels By Rex Stout And Others Publication Year Order: Book 1969
Death of a Dude
by Rex Stout
Sedentary sleuth Nero Wolfe and his sidekick, Archie Goodwin, leave West Thirty-fifth Street for a Montana dude ranch to clear an innocent man of a murder charge. Reissue.
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Nero Wolfe Novels By Rex Stout And Others Publication Year Order: Book 1964
A Right to Die
by Rex Stout
Nero Wolfe and his sidekick, Archie, are entangled in the murder case of a beautiful young socialite with too many lovers and one too many enemies--but Wolfe is sure the police are wrong to arrest her fiance.
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Nero Wolfe Novels By Rex Stout And Others Publication Year Order: Book 1940
Over My Dead Body
by Rex Stout
When a woman claiming to be Nero Wolfe's long-lost daughter gets into trouble over some missing diamonds, Wolfe, along with his sidekick, Archie, becomes involved in a world of international intrigue. Reissue.
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Nero Wolfe Novels By Rex Stout And Others Publication Year Order: Book 1936
The Rubber Band
by Rex Stout
In all his years of detecting, the unflappable Nero Wolfe has never encountered an investigation as damnably messy as this one. For what began as a clean case of larceny quickly sank into a quagmire of blackmail and broken promises, international scandal and cold-blooded murder. Now Wolfe and his assistant, Archie Goodwin must bridge eras and oceans to find the link between a Wild West lynching and a respected... (more)
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Nero Wolfe Novels By Rex Stout And Others Publication Year Order: Book 1961
The Final Deduction
by Rex Stout
When the seemingly safe return of an abducted millionaire ends in his murder in his own home, Nero Wolfe sends Archie Goodwin to do his usual legwork, while Wolfe uncovers corruption and greed among Manhattan's elite. Reissue. NYT.
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Nero Wolfe Novels By Rex Stout And Others Publication Year Order: Book 1938
Too Many Cooks
by Rex Stout
The guest at a gathering of the greatest chefs in the world, Nero Wolfe must practice his own trade--sleuthing--when he discovers that a murderer is in their midst. Reissue. NYT.
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Nero Wolfe Novels By Rex Stout And Others Publication Year Order: Book 1955
Before Midnight
by Rex Stout
When a contestant is killed during the final round of the Pour Amour perfume contest, Nero Wolfe must find the person who stole the recipe to the dead contestant's perfume in order to solve the crime. Reissue. NYT.
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Nero Wolfe Novels By Rex Stout And Others Publication Year Order: Book 1962
Gambit
by Rex Stout
Miss Sarah Blount, better known as Sally, has come to Wolfe to plead for his help with her father’s case. Matthew Blount is charged with poisoning a man to death at the Gambit Club, and all evidence points to his guilt. Sally knows that her father is innocent, but doesn’t trust his lawyer, who seems too interested in her mother. Despite the lack of cooperation by Matthew Blount or the lawyer, Wolfe takes the case,... (more)
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Death Times Three
by Rex Stout
Archie Goodwin has his hands full when three baffling murders make him the recipient of a poisonous lunch, the fall guy for a beautiful woman, and the target of the U.S. Federal Government. Death Times Three is a collection of Nero Wolfe novellas by Rex Stout, first published posthumously by Bantam Books in 1985. The book contains three stories, one never before published: * "Bitter End,"... (more)

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